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Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography
Jaroslav Folda
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hardcover. Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of the Byzantine Virgin and Child Hodegetria icon by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters. Num Pages: 492 pages, 48 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; ACK; AFC; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 177 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1420.
The Virgin and Child Hodegetria was a widely venerated Byzantine image depicting the Virgin holding and pointing to her son as the way to salvation. In this book, Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of this image by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters, where the Virgin Mary is transformed from the human mother of god, the Theotokos, of Byzantine icons, to the resplendent Madonna radiant in her heavenly home with Christ and the angels. This transformation, Folda demonstrates, was brought about by using chrysography, or golden highlighting, which came to be used on both the Virgin and Child. This book ... Read more
The Virgin and Child Hodegetria was a widely venerated Byzantine image depicting the Virgin holding and pointing to her son as the way to salvation. In this book, Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of this image by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters, where the Virgin Mary is transformed from the human mother of god, the Theotokos, of Byzantine icons, to the resplendent Madonna radiant in her heavenly home with Christ and the angels. This transformation, Folda demonstrates, was brought about by using chrysography, or golden highlighting, which came to be used on both the Virgin and Child. This book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
492
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107010239
SKU
V9781107010239
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Ref
99-6
About Jaroslav Folda
Jaroslav Folda is the N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His major publications include The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) ... Read more
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